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The global financial markets have been in extraordinary conditions for the past several months. Commodity prices have been very high across the world; crude oil prices are at 10 year high and expected to go up even further, as war rages in Ukraine. Inflation in United States is at a 40 year...

Money market funds are debt mutual schemes which invest in debt and money market instruments with residual maturities of up to 1 year. Money market funds usually invest in commercial papers (CPs), certificates of deposits (CDs), Treasury Bills, overnight securities (TREPs) etc. They can also invest in debt market...

Nippon India MF has launched a new fund offer, Nippon India Income Plus Arbitrage Omni Fund of Fund. This fund of funds will invest in Nippon India Arbitrage Fund and Nippon India MF debt funds (both active and passive debt funds). The minimum allocation to arbitrage funds will be 35%. The balance allocation will be...

How do you select mutual fund schemes for your investments? Most investors only check past performance. While returns are an important consideration for investing in mutual funds, there are other important factors you need to keep in mind to achieve your investment objectives. In this article, we will discuss...

We have reviewed Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund, a large and midcap equity fund from Principal Mutual Fund stable, a number of times in the last few years. In our usual fund reviews, we look at a performance of a scheme across various market conditions, performance versus benchmark and peers, portfolio composition etc. In this post, we...

Quant funds are thematic equity mutual fund schemes which use quantitative investment strategies. Stock selection of quant funds are based on mathematical models. The fund managers of quant schemes are responsible for developing and reviewing the mathematical models on a periodic basis, and make updates to...

Principal Focused Multi-cap Fundinvests in about 30 stocks of different sizes (large cap, midcap and small cap) with high growth potential across different industry sectors. As per SEBI’s mandate for focused funds, the maximum number of stocks in the scheme’s portfolio will be limited to 30 only. This scheme was launched in 2005 and has given...

With bank deposit interest rates on a declining trend, investor interest in debt mutual funds has been rising over the past few years. Debt funds not only provide diversification benefits and relative stability to your investment portfolio, they are more tax efficient compared to the traditional fixed income investment options like Bank FDs...

The market has been rocked by bouts of volatility since the beginning of this year (CY 2025) due to variety of factors, primarily Trump Administration’s trade policies, geo-political tensions, rising US debt etc. Though market has rallied after RBI announced the 50 bps rate cut, there is anxiety in global equity...

Balanced Advantage Funds dynamically rebalance their asset allocation between equity and fixed income (debt) based on stock market valuations based on a dynamic asset allocation model. If equity valuations are low, then in dynamic...